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Othello

Title: Othello [videorecording] / [presented by] American Ballet Theatre ; produced by American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet in collaboration with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company ; choreography by Lar Lubovitch ; music by Elliot B. Goldenthal.
Publication: c1998.

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Description

1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Subtitled "a dance in three acts." According to the program note, the ballet was "adapted by Lar Lubovitch from a story originated by Geraldi Cintio in the Hecatommithi (Hundred Tales), published in Venice in 1566, and William Shakespeare's play Othello, the Moor of Venice, written around 1602, whose characters and basic plot were adapted from the Cintio tale."

Uniform Title

Othello (Choreographic work : Lubovitch)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Accompanied by house program.
Recording made possible by the cooperation of American Ballet Theatre, Lar Lubovitch and the Metropolitan Opera House.

Credits (note)

Assistant choreographer, Ginger Thatcher ; scenery, George Tsypin ; costumes, Ann Hould-Ward ; lighting, Pat Collins ; projections, Wendall K. Harrington.

Performer (note)

Desmond Richardson (Othello) ; Parrish Maynard (Iago) ; Keith Roberts (Cassio) ; Sandra Brown (Desdemona) ; Kathleen Moore (Emilia) ; Christina Fagundes (Bianca) ; Tamara Barden, Rebecca Massey, Stephanie Walz, Griff Braun, Brian Reeder (commedia dancers) ; with Stella Abrera, Jennifer Alexander, Erin Baiano, Marian Butler, Michael Cusumano, Irene D'Amestoy, Joaquin de Luz, Andrei Dokukin, Jonathon Fagan, Elizabeth Ferrell, Erica Fischbach, Mark Grothman, Stefanie Hamburg, Casey Herd, Vladimir Kalinin, Denise Lewis, Clinton Luckett, Christopher Martin, Laura Martin, Sara Mau, Justin Morris, Johanna Snyder, Sean Stewart, Yu Xin, Olga Yaroslavtzeva (Venetian courtiers, children, attendants, guards, people of Cyprus) ; Bella Moscovich, Jose Sebastian (children).

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on June 9, 1998, by Harmill Communications Incorporated ; camera/editor, Jay Millard.

Funding (note)

This project was made possible by a grant from the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), a program under the umbrella SAVE AS: DANCE, underwritten by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The assistance of New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Contents

Act I. Prologue, the Cathedral San Marco in Venice -- Scene I, a great hall in the Palace of the Doges -- Act II, a seaport in Cyprus -- Act III, Scene I, Othello's chambers -- Scene II, Desdemona's bedroom.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3313

OCLC

NYPY99-F623

Title

Othello [videorecording] / [presented by] American Ballet Theatre ; produced by American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet in collaboration with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company ; choreography by Lar Lubovitch ; music by Elliot B. Goldenthal.

Imprint

c1998.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Danced by American Ballet Theatre.

Cast

Desmond Richardson (Othello) ; Parrish Maynard (Iago) ; Keith Roberts (Cassio) ; Sandra Brown (Desdemona) ; Kathleen Moore (Emilia) ; Christina Fagundes (Bianca) ; Tamara Barden, Rebecca Massey, Stephanie Walz, Griff Braun, Brian Reeder (commedia dancers) ; with Stella Abrera, Jennifer Alexander, Erin Baiano, Marian Butler, Michael Cusumano, Irene D'Amestoy, Joaquin de Luz, Andrei Dokukin, Jonathon Fagan, Elizabeth Ferrell, Erica Fischbach, Mark Grothman, Stefanie Hamburg, Casey Herd, Vladimir Kalinin, Denise Lewis, Clinton Luckett, Christopher Martin, Laura Martin, Sara Mau, Justin Morris, Johanna Snyder, Sean Stewart, Yu Xin, Olga Yaroslavtzeva (Venetian courtiers, children, attendants, guards, people of Cyprus) ; Bella Moscovich, Jose Sebastian (children).

Performer

Conductor: Emil de Cou.

Credits

Assistant choreographer, Ginger Thatcher ; scenery, George Tsypin ; costumes, Ann Hould-Ward ; lighting, Pat Collins ; projections, Wendall K. Harrington.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on June 9, 1998, by Harmill Communications Incorporated ; camera/editor, Jay Millard.

Funding

This project was made possible by a grant from the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), a program under the umbrella SAVE AS: DANCE, underwritten by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The assistance of New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Local Subject

Drama and dance.

Added Author

Richardson, Desmond, dancer.

Maynard, Parrish, dancer.

Roberts, Keith, dancer.

Brown, Sandra, dancer.

Moore, Kathleen, dancer.

Fagundes, Christina, dancer.

Barden, Tamara, dancer.

Massey, Rebecca, dancer.

Walz, Stephanie, dancer.

Braun, Griff, dancer.

Reeder, Brian, dancer.

De Cou, Emil, 1957- Conductor

Lubovitch, Lar, 1943- choreographer.

Goldenthal, Elliot. Composer

Tsypin, George, 1954- set designer.

Hould-Ward, Ann, costume designer.

Collins, Pat (Lighting designer)

Thatcher, Ginger.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.

Millard, Jay.

American Ballet Theatre.

San Francisco Ballet.

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.

National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Harmill Communications.

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

DHCA.

Added Title

Othello (Choreographic work : Lubovitch)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3313

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